Love Is A Greater Mystery Than Death.

My Influence Is Probably More From American Crime Writers Than Any Europeans. And I Hardly Read Any Scandinavian Crime Before I Started Writing Myself. I Wasn't A Great Crime Reader To Begin With.

I Have Questioned Myself About The Brutality In The Last Few Novels. Actually In The Leopard, In Hindsight, I Feel I Went A Little Bit Too Far With Screaming Blood. There Are A Couple Of Scenes That I Regret And Wish I Had The Chance To Rewrite. Phantom Has Less Blood.

I'm Not A Big Crime Reader, But I'm Reading Michael Connelly's 'the Reversal.' I'm Going Back To His Novels. I'm Also Reading Keith Richards' 'life.' I'm Always Fascinated By The Transition From The Innocent Late '60s And Early '70s And The Youth Culture Becoming An Industry.

What We Humans Think We Know Is Nothing Compared To What We Need To Believe To Numb The Fear And Pain.

Ever Since The '70s, Maj Sjowall And Per Wahloo Were The Godfathers Of Scandinavian Crime. They Broke The Crime Novel In Scandinavia From The Kiosks And Into The Serious Bookstores.